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Exclusive: Gordon stresses future continuity as he prepares to leave
OFPP Administrator Dan Gordon looks back on his tenure highlighting the successes of his office. Gordon will become the associate dean of contracts law at The George Washington University in January. He said improvements to the acquisition workforce and the implementation of strategic sourcing are among his accomplishments.
Tags: acquisition , acquisition workforce , acquisition policy , Dan Gordon , OFPP , FAI , DAU , strategic sourcing , GSA , budget , supercommittee , George Washington University , Jason Miller
Analysis: Contractor dollars shrink in FY 2011 budget
A recent analysis from FedSources shows that the money available for contractors in the FY 2011 budget is smaller when compared to FY 2010, and the trend is likely to continue.
Tags: contracting , FedSources , Ray Bjorklund , FY 2010 budget , FY 2011 budget , DoD , Dorothy Ramienski , daily debrief
Professional Services Council has concerns about DoD insourcing
Stan Soloway, president of the Professional Services Council, explains why his organization wrote a letter to Defense Department Secretary Robert Gates. One of the largest unions in the country, the International Association of Machinists, has expressed concerns about the process, as well.
Tags: Pay & Benefits , management , DoD , Professional Services Council , Stan Soloway , Dorothy Ramienski , inherently governmental
Labor to rebalance IT workforce, modernize infrastructure
Tom Wiesner, Labor's deputy chief information officer, is working on a strategy to bring work contracted out to vendors back in-house.
March 3, 2011
Tags: Tom Wiesner , DoL , technology , data center consolidation , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller , TIC
Bureau of the Public Debt works to improve technology
Kim McCoy, chief information officer for the Treasury Department's Bureau of the Public Debt, tells Federal News Radio how her office is unlike most agencies - its dependence on contractors for technology support is limited.
December 16, 2010
Tags: Kim McCoy , Bureau of Public Debt , Federal Management Services , cloud computing , data center consolidation , technology , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller , Treasury
Rep. Sarbanes calls for more telework, insourcing
Legislation calls for high-level executive to oversee employee telecommuting
Tags: technology , contracting , mngt , Rep. John Sarbanes , Rep. Stephen Lynch , Sen. Daniel Akaka , GSA , OPM , GAO , telework , Competitive sourcing , inherently governmental
DHS slows pace to add more oversight
Homeland Security will slow down, possibly stopping, some projects to make sure they are on target. DHS also applying increasing attention to EAGLE follow-on contracts, and reviewing whether the Department has the right mix of federal employees and contractors.
Tags: contracting , technology , Soraya Correa , Richard Spires , DHS , VA , CIS , EAGLE , small business , Project management , acquisition workforce ,
Insourcing debate heats up over agencies stealing employees
Industry experts charge that the Defense Department is targeting specific vendor employees to bring in house. Most of the Pentagon's actions are purely budget driven, industry says. OMB says insourcing is just one element of the broader management initiative of managing the multi-sector workforce.
Tags: mngt , contracting , best practices , Matthew Blum , Jeffrey Zients , OMB , OFPP , DoD , Defense , Interior , Stan Soloway , Terry Raney , Professional Services Council , CACI , Multi-sector workforce , acquisition workforce
NASA's Nebula cloud begins hosting USASpending.gov today
NASA CIO Linda Cureton tells FederalNewsRadio that the cloud platform moved quickly out of the pilot stage and into a full productions stage. Cureton also is reviewing the plans for NASA's multi-billion dollar IT support services consolidation contract, called I3P. She says a new schedule could be released as early as next week.
Tags: tech , contracting , Linda Cureton , NASA , OMB , GSA , cloud computing , I3P , Nebula , apps.gov ,
GAO finds civilian agencies slow to insource jobs
Auditors issue a new report to Congress on how civilian agencies are meeting the legislative mandate to issue guidelines to bring work back into the government. Of the nine agencies GAO looked at, none have released final directives. Agencies say they need more help in defining certain terms such as inherently governmental.
Tags: contracting , management , GAO , OMB , Multisector workforce , inherently governmental
